Chapter 576 - 347: Universal Relief Flower Burial
The fact that the disciples were frantically shaking their Flower Hands and dancing wasn’t because they had all suddenly gone mad.
Instead, they were influenced by Zou Feng’s Great Universal Hand ascending to the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.
However, Zou Feng was certain he hadn’t actually used the Great Universal Hand. Furthermore, nearly everyone present was an Inner Sect Disciple of the Spiritual Energy Realm...
To think that the slight overflow of power from the Great Universal Hand’s breakthrough alone could cause such an effect—it was truly terrifying!
An idea struck him. Zou Feng was no longer in a hurry to leave. Instead, for reasons he couldn’t quite explain, he also began to perform the Flower Hand.
But as he began to move, the surrounding disciples, like puppets on a string, all started to follow his movements and rhythm.
Zou Feng had been practicing the Flower Hand for years. His form was as perfect as it could be, and his repertoire of accompanying moves was vast. He completely outclassed these Flower Hand newbies.
And once all these newbies started imitating him, Zou Feng instantly became the lead dancer—the center-stage star of the dance troupe, you could say—leading nearly a hundred people in a wild dance.
Gradually, everyone clumsily fell in line with Zou Feng’s movements, their steps and Flower Hands becoming synchronized.
The sight of this large group, perfectly synchronized in a dance so tacky it was almost performance art... back in his previous life, during the early days of short-form video, this scene would have instantly gone viral and made him a top internet celebrity.
As everyone knows, when something is tacky to the extreme, it transcends into art. It truly wasn’t something that could be described with a simple word like "pretty."
Even Zou Feng himself, though he had started dancing on a sudden impulse, now found himself so lost in the rapture of the dance that he didn’t even know why...
Meanwhile, the disciples who were farther away and unaffected by the Great Universal Hand’s breakthrough watched with their jaws on the floor.
’How did this group suddenly start dancing? And why do they look like they’ve rehearsed, moving in such perfect unison?’
Of course, as the center-stage star, Zou Feng remained the flashiest guy in the dance troupe.
"Hey, what are you doing? Stop dancing!"
At first, the other onlookers thought it was a bit ridiculous but still somewhat entertaining to watch.
But the longer they watched, the more bizarre and unsettling it became.
So, many began to call out to the brothers and fellow disciples they knew, trying to stop them from continuing this dance.
Yet no matter how they shouted, the dancers seemed to have completely lost their minds, oblivious to their surroundings and deaf to all calls.
"Have you gone fucking crazy? Stop dancing!"
Seeing that their warnings were useless, many people, frantic with worry, rushed forward to try and drag the dancers out by force.
However, as soon as these would-be rescuers got within a certain distance, their bodies would suddenly tremble. A look of dawning comprehension would appear in their eyes, quickly followed by a vacant stare.
And in the end, they too would join the ranks of the dancers with equal fervor.
This bizarre phenomenon instantly made everyone else afraid to get any closer.
"What the hell is this? An Array that can affect the mind?!"
"Impossible. How could there be any other Array on the mountain of the Battle Saint Palace? This has to be... a Skill Domain!"
"Uh, what kind of Skill Domain could be this ridiculously powerful?"
A disciple with sharp eyes pointed toward Zou Feng’s position. "That depends on who’s casting the Domain!"
"Haven’t you noticed? The number one spot on the Ascension Rankings has already changed to Brother Zou!"
"Ha, but this is too exaggerated! I mean, not even a Dao Foundation Realm disciple could necessarily cast a Domain like this, right?"
"Who cares? The Celestial Dao Cauldron hasn’t stopped it, which means it’s not harmful. I’m going to go join in for a bit!"
Amid the heated discussions, once they figured out that Zou Feng was the one behind this Domain, a small number of people actually went forward on purpose to be affected and join the Flower Hand Dance Troupe.
A group of Spiritual Energy Realm Cultivators, in broad daylight, in the open space before the Battle Saint Palace, dancing with wild, collective abandon, their hands blooming into Flower Hands...
Strictly speaking, it was highly improper!
Perhaps finally unable to watch any longer, the Celestial Dao Cauldron chimed once more.
The crowd, who had still been dancing wildly, were "knocked" back to their senses and stopped moving.
But even though they had stopped, everyone’s reactions were naturally quite different.
Some were utterly confused, some were filled with lingering fear, and some actually felt refreshed and clear-headed after dancing, as if they had faintly found the breakthroughs for certain problems in their Cultivation.
There were even some who felt they hadn’t had enough and wanted to keep dancing.
However, Zou Feng did not stop with the chiming of the Celestial Dao Cauldron.
Instead, just as he had planned, he continued, finishing the final dance step and Flower Hand motion before slowly taking his bow.
When he opened his eyes again, there wasn’t a trace of shame in them for his previous actions. Instead, his face was full of pleasant surprise.
The reason for his surprise was simple. In addition to the Poison Domain he had comprehended long ago, he had now grasped a new Domain Expansion!
He could tentatively call it the Universal Salvation Burial Flower Domain.
Within this Domain, the mental influence of the Great Universal Hand would be amplified exponentially.
Zou Feng wouldn’t even need to strike his opponent; simply by "dancing" within the Domain, he could inflict various mental effects on his enemies inside it.
If allies were also within the Domain, he could provide them with substantial buffs and enhancements.
Of course, his ability to comprehend the Universal Salvation Burial Flower Domain wasn’t solely due to the breakthrough of his Great Universal Hand. It was also related to the many Skills Zou Feng had cultivated to the Great Success realm.
This was especially true of the Yangsui Sutra, a Skill adept at exorcising evil, which was inherently geared toward mental influence.
Of course, the "energy supply" provided by the Abyssal Vortex Prison-Suppressing Force also played an indispensable role.
As for the power of the Universal Salvation Burial Flower Domain...
One only had to look at how many Spiritual Energy Realm disciples had just been affected. Its might was already beyond question.